2026 Dario L. Ringach: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	48	6126	5643	2678	2417	103	11262

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Overview

Dario L. Ringach is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on various aspects of neuroscience, with a strong emphasis on visual perception and processing mechanisms as well as neural dynamics and brain function.

The scientific work of Ringach covers numerous topics including:

Visual perception and processing mechanisms
Neural dynamics and brain function
Neurobiology and insect physiology research
Retinal development and disorders
Advanced fluorescence microscopy techniques
Neuroscience and neuropharmacology research
Photoreceptor and optogenetics research

Their publication record demonstrates a consistent engagement with both main and subfields of neuroscience, notably in cognitive neuroscience, cellular and molecular neuroscience, molecular biology, biophysics, and electrical and electronic engineering.

Cognitive neuroscience
Cellular and molecular neuroscience
Molecular biology
Biophysics
Electrical and electronic engineering

Ringach's recent papers include a range of studies published in reputable journals:

"Vision Changes the Cellular Composition of Binocular Circuitry during the Critical Period," 2020, Neuron
"ON/OFF domains shape receptive field structure in mouse visual cortex," 2022, Nature Communications
"Vision is required for the formation of binocular neurons prior to the classical critical period," 2021, Current Biology
"Functional Clusters of Neurons in Layer 6 of Macaque V1," 2020, Journal of Neuroscience
"What makes a theory of consciousness unscientific?," 2025, Nature Neuroscience

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Ringach include:

Elaine Tring
Mario Dipoppa
Liming Tan
Joshua T. Trachtenberg
S Lawrence Zipursky

Publication venues where Ringach has been notably active include:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Journal of Neurophysiology
Nature Communications
Current Biology
Neuron

Throughout their career, the scientific output of Dario L. Ringach reveals a broad interdisciplinary approach within neuroscience, encompassing both theoretical and experimental methods aimed at understanding the cellular, molecular, and system-level foundations of vision and brain function.

Best Publications

Orientation selectivity in macaque V1: diversity and laminar dependence.

Dario L. Ringach;Robert M. Shapley;Michael J. Hawken

767
Citations
Contrast's effect on spatial summation by macaque V1 neurons.

Michael P. Sceniak;Dario L. Ringach;Michael J. Hawken;Robert Shapley

737
Citations
Dynamics of orientation tuning in macaque primary visual cortex

Dario L. Ringach;Michael J Hawken;Robert Shapley

714
Citations
Local Origin of Field Potentials in Visual Cortex

Steffen Katzner;Ian Nauhaus;Andrea Benucci;Vincent Bonin

698
Citations
Spatial structure and symmetry of simple-cell receptive fields in macaque primary visual cortex.

Dario L. Ringach

524
Citations
Stimulus contrast modulates functional connectivity in visual cortex

Ian Nauhaus;Laura Busse;Matteo Carandini;Matteo Carandini;Dario L Ringach

453
Citations
Spatial and temporal properties of illusory contours and amodal boundary completion.

Dario L. Ringach;Robert Shapley

320
Citations
Dynamics of Orientation Selectivity in the Primary Visual Cortex and the Importance of Cortical Inhibition

Robert Shapley;Michael Hawken;Dario L. Ringach

315
Citations
On the classification of simple and complex cells

Ferenc Mechler;Dario L. Ringach

296
Citations
Brains, Genes, and Primates

Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte;Edward M. Callaway;Sarah J. Caddick;Patricia Churchland

296
Citations
Spontaneous and driven cortical activity: implications for computation.

Dario L Ringach

288
Citations
A subspace reverse-correlation technique for the study of visual neurons

Dario L. Ringach;Guillermo Sapiro;Robert Shapley

262
Citations
Topological analysis of population activity in visual cortex

Gurjeet Singh;Facundo Memoli;Tigran Ishkhanov;Guillermo Sapiro

248
Citations
Dynamics of Spatial Frequency Tuning in Macaque V1

C. E. Bredfeldt;D. L. Ringach

243
Citations
Reverse correlation in neurophysiology

Dario L. Ringach;Robert Shapley

209
Citations
Community-based benchmarking improves spike rate inference from two-photon calcium imaging data.

Philipp Berens;Jeremy Freeman;Thomas Deneux;Nikolay Chenkov

199
Citations
Predictions of a recurrent model of orientation selectivity.

Matteo Carandini;Dario L. Ringach

189
Citations
Retinal origin of orientation maps in visual cortex.

Se-Bum Paik;Dario L Ringach

187
Citations
Receptive field structure of neurons in monkey primary visual cortex revealed by stimulation with natural image sequences.

Dario L. Ringach;Michael J. Hawken;Robert Shapley

183
Citations
Dynamics of Orientation Tuning in Macaque V1: The Role of Global and Tuned Suppression

Dario L. Ringach;Michael J. Hawken;Robert Shapley

175
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